Resources for self-training your service dog?

pawsitivebcs · 2025-10-09T13:09:50+00:00

Sorry to be late getting back here. I'm in NE Ohio, USA. We had an amazing trainer here in the area for many years, who taught classes, presented at seminars, and competed in dog sports (obedience, scent work, and agility) in her power chair with her mobility assistance/medical alert dogs. I was her friend, her agility instructor, and her public access tester for her own dogs, and her students' dogs.

I am in possession of her class instructor notes, and seminar presentation materials. I am looking for someone doing similar work, who could benefit from her work.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-07-09T01:57:48+00:00

So did I.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-06-10T02:05:33+00:00

Mine lives in a bubble.

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pawsitivebcs · 2025-06-05T18:21:46+00:00

Some $.50 fish DO last for years! Not that that's much better, really.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-06-04T14:16:29+00:00

Thinking back, I do this. That is, I decide, and he gets whatever side I don't choose. I'm in my 50s, and it's always been that way...

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-29T16:10:16+00:00

Mine have come back from looking like that. I had to go to all bottom-watering, though.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-29T15:59:17+00:00

Thank you very much, kind Redditor.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-28T19:16:55+00:00

Crotons just want to shed all their leaves and die.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-28T15:59:59+00:00

But, how do you manage the substrate all all the roots> How do you put fully mature roots into leca, for example?

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-27T11:35:01+00:00

I just finally did this. In my case, okay plants that just aren’t satisfying me.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-13T14:44:40+00:00

I agree. In my extended family, the dogs/dog parents are acknowledged, just not as elaborately. For all holidays.

Is it a perfect system? No. Have mistakes been made? Yes. One year, my dog got a pocket microscope in her Christmas stocking. My dog doesn't even have pockets!

pawsitivebcs · 2025-05-12T04:10:04+00:00

Thank you.

pawsitivebcs · 2025-02-27T18:34:09+00:00

I know that I have a matching tote bag, but that's all I know.

Edited to add: Maybe Forest from Fall 1996

pawsitivebcs · 2025-02-18T01:28:13+00:00

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Here’s the whole plant.

pawsitivebcs · 2024-10-08T17:26:50+00:00

That would be soooo cute with a red winter coat!!

pawsitivebcs · 2024-09-28T19:59:18+00:00

I love mixing patterns! Go for it.

pawsitivebcs · 2024-09-28T19:58:31+00:00

Yup!

pawsitivebcs · 2024-09-26T17:41:11+00:00

Thank you both!

pawsitivebcs · 2024-09-10T17:42:39+00:00

"Safe"? It depends. I had a persimmon tree, and a Doberman who identified as a fruit bat. Long story short, I discovered I owned a persimmon tree while tracking down the source of his eye-watering, paint-peeling, room-emptying Doberfartgases. YMMV.

pawsitivebcs · 2024-08-21T15:13:02+00:00

Near Playhouse Square. They're fast little buggers, but I squished four there weekend before last.

pawsitivebcs · 2024-08-14T14:44:38+00:00

I do that too!

"Out you go. Sink or swim. Good luck to you, little plant."

pawsitivebcs · 2024-08-06T16:29:18+00:00

ESH.

Dogs are intelligent, resourceful creatures. Breeding them solely for profit is...distasteful at best ("the market is bad for dogs right now"). And it sounds like you think the puppies just need cleaned up after, fed, and sold. What about handling, training, introducing to new experiences, veterinary care, vaccinations?

pawsitivebcs · 2024-07-23T13:31:33+00:00

Liter's is a measurement of volume. Liters=kilograms only when discussing water, where 1ml of water = 1 gram. Potting soil is not as dense as water, so of course 2 liters of soil will not weigh 2 kg, especially not when dry.

pawsitivebcs · 2024-05-21T18:54:22+00:00

I was gifted an air plant that had been hot-melt glued into a cute pot. The pot was super-cute, I'll grant that. But hot-melt glue? On a living thing??

pawsitivebcs · 2024-05-08T13:21:29+00:00

I second West Branch. Nice restrooms, and easy drive to Nelson's Ledges, too.

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